Tropescilloscope: Poor Communication Kills

Characters do not communicate with each other when needed, causing problems. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Darkest Hour Italian Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Hell Is That Noise Deliberately Monochrome Mythology Gag Sexy Discretion Shot Fatal Flaw Crazy-Prepared Jerkass Has a Point Paper-Thin Disguise Artistic License – Military Disney Death Logo Joke Covers Always Lie Rich Bitch Shower Scene Ax-Crazy Obviously Evil Throwing Your Sword Always Works A Minor Kidroduction Film Noir Index Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Eureka Moment Here We Go Again! Taking You with Me Boom, Headshot! Homage Dies Wide Open Big Applesauce The Starscream Adults Are Useless Hypocrite Broken Pedestal Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Groin Attack Ghost Fiction Chekhov's Skill Curb-Stomp Battle He Knows Too Much Gone Horribly Right Shout-Out Authority Equals Asskicking Demonic Possession Kids Are Cruel Drowning My Sorrows Spared by the Adaptation Running Gag Antagonist Title Sanity Slippage Token Minority Left the Background Music On Badass in a Nice Suit Call-Forward Despair Event Horizon Large Ham Contrived Coincidence Show Within a Show Ambiguously Gay Room Full of Crazy Cassandra Truth Dramedy Title Drop Award-Bait Song Reasonable Authority Figure Victoria's Secret Compartment Gilligan Cut Storming the Castle Television Movie Index Time Skip Handicapped Badass Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Tranquil Fury Parental Substitute Your Head A-Splode Offscreen Moment of Awesome Heroic Sacrifice Intergenerational Friendship Breaking the Fourth Wall Men Are the Expendable Gender Not So Above It All Yandere Death by Irony Four-Temperament Ensemble He Who Fights Monsters Adaptational Badass Heroes Want Redheads Villain Opening Scene Empathic Environment Race Against the Clock O.O.C. Is Serious Business Pretty Little Headshots Maybe Ever After Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Attempted Rape Interrupted Suicide Lampshade Hanging Insane Troll Logic Jump Scare Final Girl Precision F-Strike Creator Cameo From Nobody to Nightmare Spanner in the Works Deal with the Devil Lighter and Softer Slasher Smile Advertised Extra The Stinger True Companions Blatant Lies Tempting Fate Shirtless Scene Punny Name Broken Bird Laughing Mad Children Are Innocent Red Eyes, Take Warning Diabolus ex Machina The Brute In the Back Unwitting Instigator of Doom Cool Guns Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dark Action Girl Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Gorn Psycho for Hire Obfuscating Stupidity Gratuitous English Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Catch-Phrase The Quiet One Ironic Echo My Greatest Failure Funny Foreigner Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Drugs Are Bad All Just a Dream Animal Motifs Australian Movies Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Take a Third Option Cowboy Cop Not Using the "Z" Word A God Am I Disappeared Dad Sassy Black Woman Arc Words Armor-Piercing Question Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Leave the Camera Running Fat Bastard Deus ex Machina Silent Movie Narrator Good Is Not Nice No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Curse Cut Short Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Jitter Cam Get Out! Freeze-Frame Bonus Foregone Conclusion Refuge in Audacity Setting Update Determinator aka: The Determinator Frame-Up Reality Ensues Plucky Comic Relief One-Man Army Meaningful Background Event Wretched Hive Works Set in World War II Amoral Attorney Important Haircut Drives Like Crazy Evil Plan Adapted Out Establishing Character Moment Implacable Man No Name Given Our Vampires Are Different Asshole Victim Not Quite Dead Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Green-Eyed Monster Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bowdlerise Documentary Thriller Domestic Abuse Evil-Detecting Dog My God, What Have I Done? Star-Crossed Lovers Big Bad Product Placement Berserk Button It Will Never Catch On Be Careful What You Wish For Meet Cute No-Sell Grey and Gray Morality Properly Paranoid Affably Evil Meaningful Name Redemption Equals Death Sir Swears-a-Lot Film Series Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Beta Couple Gainax Ending Country Matters The Bully Death Seeker Babies Ever After Psychopathic Manchild Jerk Jock Evil Brit Dutch Angle Roaring Rampage of Revenge Romantic Comedy Bond Villain Stupidity Fingore Reckless Gun Usage Japanese Films Martial Arts Movie The Ghost Rasputinian Death Bloody Hilarious Cat Fight Extreme Doormat Screw This, I'm Outta Here! "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Scenery Porn Mugging the Monster Taking the Bullet Bottomless Magazines Everyone Has Standards Flipping the Bird Villain Protagonist Death Glare A Father to His Men folderlabel Jerk with a Heart of Gold Only Known by Their Nickname Novelization Soft Glass Pimped-Out Dress Enemy Mine Adorkable Happily Married Naïve Newcomer Fourth Date Marriage I'm a Humanitarian Aside Glance Police Brutality Card-Carrying Villain Improvised Weapon Dying Moment of Awesome Damsel in Distress You Have Failed Me Catapult Nightmare Those Wacky Nazis Department of Redundancy Department 20 Minutes into the Future Kill It with Fire Suddenly SHOUTING! Whole Plot Reference Henpecked Husband Only One Name Alliterative Name No Ending Belligerent Sexual Tension Due to the Dead Rule of Funny Grievous Bottley Harm Dual Wielding Genre Throwback Older Than They Look Superhero "Well Done, Son!" Guy Have a Gay Old Time German Films Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Bury Your Gays I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Air-Vent Passageway Adaptational Attractiveness Body Horror Badass Normal Truth in Television Never My Fault Kick the Son of a Bitch Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dark Is Not Evil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Took a Level in Badass The '80s Kill 'em All Parental Neglect The Voiceless Faux Affably Evil La Résistance Translation Convention World of Ham Nice Guy Auto Erotica Cool Shades Names to Run Away from Really Fast Author Avatar Tagline Bloodier and Gorier No Celebrities Were Harmed Annoying Younger Sibling Artistic License – Physics Ship Tease Psychological Thriller Historical Hero Upgrade Black Comedy Rape The Power of Love Cain and Abel The Smurfette Principle Coming-of-Age Story Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mr. Exposition War Is Hell The Hero Would Hit a Girl Drill Sergeant Nasty Bloodless Carnage Bond One-Liner Every Car Is a Pinto All for Nothing A Date with Rosie Palms Mundane Made Awesome My Beloved Smother The Lost Lenore Heroic BSoD Big Eater Action Prologue Monumental Damage Mercy Kill A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Ditz Malevolent Masked Men The Chessmaster Exactly What It Says on the Tin Biopic Closed Circle Kubrick Stare The Dreaded How We Got Here Cool Old Lady Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Black and Gray Morality Sadistic Choice The Alcoholic Male Gaze Romantic False Lead The Great Depression Didn't Think This Through Heel–Face Turn Scenery Gorn All Men Are Perverts Arranged Marriage Scary Black Man Tap on the Head Twist Ending Stock Footage Mistaken for Gay I Did What I Had to Do What You Are in the Dark Ominous Latin Chanting Black Dude Dies First Dwindling Party Let's Get Dangerous! Deadpan Snarker Same Language Dub Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Daddy's Girl Bilingual Bonus Shown Their Work Not What It Looks Like Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Red Herring Character Development Cool Car Defrosting Ice Queen She Cleans Up Nicely Fainting Bald of Evil Artistic License – Gun Safety Creepy Child Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Comically Missing the Point Evil Is Hammy Serial Killer Nothing Is Scarier Captain Ersatz Hero of Another Story Morality Pet Black Comedy Guns Akimbo Continuity Nod Red Oni, Blue Oni Bad "Bad Acting" Dramatic Irony Did Not Get the Girl Unspoken Plan Guarantee Only Sane Man The Dragon Slashed Throat Does Not Like Shoes The Chick Hollywood Law Sole Survivor Depraved Bisexual Totally Radical Artistic License – Geography Sequel Escalation Never Found the Body Crapsack World Gory Discretion Shot Hong Kong Films Face–Heel Turn Greater-Scope Villain Adaptational Villainy Mighty Whitey Composite Character No OSHA Compliance Dissonant Serenity Recycled IN SPACE! Vomit Discretion Shot Military and Warfare Films Mystery and Detective Films Protagonist Title Nice Hat Double Entendre Chase Scene Anguished Declaration of Love Rewatch Bonus Chekhov's Gunman Motor Mouth For Want of a Nail Big Fancy House All There in the Script Scare Chord Papa Wolf Amusing Injuries No Antagonist Evil Sounds Deep The Reveal Fantasy Films Fate Worse than Death Idiot Ball Action Genre Genre Savvy I Need a Freaking Drink Distracted by the Sexy Made of Iron Badass Boast I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bring My Brown Pants Pay Evil unto Evil Rated M for Manly Extremely Short Timespan Last-Name Basis And the Adventure Continues Cruel and Unusual Death Better to Die than Be Killed Laser-Guided Karma Moment Killer Break the Haughty Sports Stories Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique In Medias Res The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Awesome, but Impractical Major Injury Underreaction Parental Abandonment Blood from the Mouth Eagleland Once More, with Clarity! Central Theme Off with His Head! Adaptation Expansion Hair-Trigger Temper Even Evil Has Standards Daylight Horror Celebrity Paradox Those Two Guys "Shaggy Dog" Story Red Right Hand Pretty in Mink Naked People Are Funny What the Hell, Hero? Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Killed Mid-Sentence Pyrrhic Victory Meaningful Echo Aluminum Christmas Trees Suspiciously Specific Denial Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bare Your Midriff Shoot the Shaggy Dog Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Anti-Hero Foreshadowing Actually Pretty Funny Framing Device The Atoner Intrepid Reporter Beard of Evil Corrupt Corporate Executive You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Getting Crap Past the Radar Adaptation Distillation Crazy Jealous Guy Stylistic Suck An Arm and a Leg Fanservice Extra Arch-Enemy Fire-Forged Friends Guile Hero An Aesop Would Hurt a Child Friend to All Children Anti-Villain Madness Mantra Black Best Friend Reality Is Unrealistic Half the Man He Used to Be Big-Bad Ensemble Bunny-Ears Lawyer Manly Tears Sealed Evil in a Can Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Trailers Always Spoil Eldritch Abomination Broken Aesop Mind Screw Retired Badass Small Name, Big Ego Camp Gay Hypocritical Humor Dramatic Gun Cock Foil Skewed Priorities The Cavalry Brutal Honesty Your Cheating Heart Cool Old Guy Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Faceless Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Real Life Alas, Poor Villain Insistent Terminology Call-Back Lock and Load Montage The '50s Not So Stoic Bar Brawl No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Expy Male Frontal Nudity The Stoic Alpha Bitch For the Evulz Anachronic Order Improbable Aiming Skills British Films Outrun the Fireball Based on a True Story timeperiod Cold-Blooded Torture Chekhov's Gun Took a Level in Jerkass Affectionate Parody Dirty Cop The Un-Reveal Epic Movie Worthy Opponent Hooker with a Heart of Gold Real Life Writes the Plot Captain Obvious The Sociopath There Is No Kill Like Overkill Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Humiliation Conga Those Two Bad Guys Ungrateful Bastard Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Suspiciously Similar Substitute NO INDOOR VOICE What Happened to the Mouse? Evil Laugh Abhorrent Admirer Beware the Nice Ones The Dog Bites Back It's All About Me Easily Forgiven Horror Comedy The Hero Dies Double-Meaning Title Death by Adaptation Evil Counterpart Dirty Coward Big Damn Heroes The Musical The Vamp Spiteful Spit Back from the Dead Punch-Clock Villain Ambiguous Disorder The Oner Agony of the Feet The Lancer Never Trust a Trailer Mad Scientist Rule of Symbolism Too Dumb to Live Casting Gag Evil vs. Evil Jerkass Artistic License – Biology Stealth Pun The X of Y Insult Backfire Police are Useless Becoming the Mask Rule of Cool Instant Death Bullet Sequel Hook Bolivian Army Ending B-Movie Batman Gambit N-Word Privileges Shell-Shocked Veteran Badass Bookworm Brick Joke Smug Snake Death of a Child Early Installment Weirdness Unreliable Narrator It's Personal Fan Disservice Unusually Uninteresting Sight Actor Allusion Manipulative Bastard Word of God Crucified Hero Shot "Awesome McCool" Name Immune to Bullets Red Shirt Shipper on Deck Put on a Bus Say My Name Badass Grandpa Villain Song Neck Snap From Bad to Worse Vacation Films Pragmatic Adaptation Our Zombies Are Different Cat Scare Fake Shemp Epic Fail Hoist by His Own Petard Imagine Spot Wham Line Stealth Hi/Bye Rape as Drama Non-Indicative Name Creative Closing Credits Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Sci-Fi Horror Dirty Old Man Eye Scream The Smart Guy All There in the Manual Disney Villain Death Dark Reprise Facial Horror Dropped a Bridge on Him Does This Remind You of Anything? Smoking Is Cool Silence Is Golden Abusive Parents Canon Foreigner Overprotective Dad '80s Hair Retirony The Remake Deconstruction Mood Whiplash Camera Abuse Combat Pragmatist Revenge Redshirt Army Mexican Standoff Sacrificial Lion Overly Long Gag Vitriolic Best Buds Woman Scorned Line-of-Sight Name Failed a Spot Check Love Triangle Stuff Blowing Up Dull Surprise Earn Your Happy Ending Decoy Protagonist Butt-Monkey Historical-Domain Character The Mole Well-Intentioned Extremist Re-Cut Hollywood Darkness Defiant to the End Betty and Veronica Funny Background Event The Bad Guy Wins The '70s Leaning on the Fourth Wall Wounded Gazelle Gambit Flashback As the Good Book Says... Adaptational Heroism French Films Five-Man Band As Himself Pre-Mortem One-Liner Shut Up, Hannibal! Expository Hairstyle Change Slap-Slap-Kiss Driven to Suicide Noodle Incident Dumb Blonde MacGuffin Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bittersweet Ending The Stoner Anachronism Stew Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bland-Name Product May–December Romance Bavarian Fire Drill Blood Knight Make It Look Like an Accident The Film of the Book Evil Is Petty Darker and Edgier Match Cut Adaptation Name Change Downer Ending Destination Defenestration Humans Are Bastards Obstructive Bureaucrat Market-Based Title This Is Gonna Suck Kick the Dog Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Karmic Death Not So Different Fantastic Racism Determinator Exact Words Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Adult Fear Public Domain Feature Films Pragmatic Villainy Femme Fatale Stepford Smiler After the End Hope Spot Bound and Gagged As You Know Loads and Loads of Characters Cluster F-Bomb Hero Antagonist Training Montage Action Survivor The Mafia Unresolved Sexual Tension Slasher Movie Ambiguous Ending Mama Bear Really Gets Around Fanservice Retcon Ass Shove Brother–Sister Incest Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Video Credits Developing Doomed Characters The Ace Spiritual Successor The Big Guy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Fun with Acronyms Corpsing Death by Sex Plot Hole Bullying a Dragon One Steve Limit Wrong Genre Savvy Knife Nut Rousing Speech Race Lift Ascended Extra The Alleged Car Accidental Misnaming Genre Shift Zombie Stories You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Unusual Euphemism Adaptation Dye-Job Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Car Fu Cloudcuckoolander She's Got Legs In Name Only BFG Stalker with a Crush Sinister Minister Leitmotif Heterosexual Life-Partners Artistic License – Law An Axe to Grind Big Bad Duumvirate Pet the Dog Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Historical Villain Upgrade Playing Gertrude Up to Eleven Villain Ball It Can Think Offscreen Teleportation Chewing the Scenery More Dakka Break the Cutie Soundtrack Dissonance Big Brother Instinct Take That! Apocalypse How Oh, Crap! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Action Girl Christmas Movies Index Faking the Dead Credits Gag Russian Films Horror Films Peek-a-Boo Corpse Deliberate Values Dissonance Bait-and-Switch Neck Lift Costume Porn The Place Ms. Fanservice The '60s Music Stories Honor Before Reason Random Events Plot Early-Bird Cameo Visual Pun Index of Film Westerns Science Fiction Films Demoted to Extra Eyepatch of Power I Have Your Wife Disproportionate Retribution The Casanova Ripped from the Headlines Almost Kiss Self-Deprecation Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hidden Depths Man on Fire Light Is Not Good Needs Wiki Magic Love Parental Incest Politically Incorrect Villain Spell My Name with an "S" Hate Sink Face Death with Dignity The End... Or Is It? Together in Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Informed Ability Badass Longcoat Calling the Old Man Out Vampire Fiction Undying Loyalty Wham Shot Gender Flip Brainless Beauty Married to the Job Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Dark and Troubled Past Reality Has No Subtitles Villain with Good Publicity Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mr. Fanservice Historical In-Joke "The Reason You Suck" Speech Very Loosely Based on a True Story Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Load Bi the Way Film Noir The '90s Famous Last Words Only in It for the Money Book-Ends Loophole Abuse One-Word Title Conspicuous CG Love at First Sight Mooks And Starring Made of Explodium Villainous Breakdown Accidental Murder Fiery Redhead Missing Mom Riddle for the Ages Bad Boss Improbable Weapon User Blackmail Poor Communication Kills Animal Title Index Straight Gay Fatal Family Photo Eiffel Tower Effect Dogged Nice Guy Artistic License – History Posthumous Character Chiaroscuro Canadian Movies Karma Houdini Big "NO!" Manchild The Cameo Super Strength And I Must Scream Serious Business Rule of Three Disguised in Drag Wicked Cultured Woman in White Irony Heel Realization Toplessness from the Back Author Appeal Anyone Can Die Fish out of Water Age Lift Freudian Excuse Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Gold Digger Knight Templar Animated Credits Opening Only a Flesh Wound You Killed My Father Dressing as the Enemy As Long as It Sounds Foreign